Diddy urged the courtroom to hurry up his enchantment, arguing his four-year sentence might finish earlier than a call is made on his Mann Act conviction.

Sean “Diddy/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Diddy” Combs is urgent the courts for velocity, urging a federal appeals panel to fast-track his authorized problem earlier than his four-year jail sentence runs its course.

The embattled Hip-Hop mogul’s authorized crew filed a movement Wednesday (October 29), with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals asking for an accelerated schedule. 

His lawyer, Alexandra Shapiro, warned that the usual 18-month appeals course of might outlast his sentence, rendering the enchantment meaningless. “Mr. Combs’s appeal of his sentence does not become moot while the appeal is pending,” she wrote.

Diddy was discovered responsible in July of violating the Mann Act by arranging interstate prostitution, particularly by organizing sex events — referred to in courtroom as “freak-offs” — involving his girlfriends and male escorts. Though he was cleared of racketeering and sex-trafficking expenses, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced him in October to 50 months in jail and fined him $500,000.

Shapiro is pushing for all briefs to be submitted by March and oral arguments to be heard in April, a six-month timeline that will considerably shorten the same old course of. 

Prosecutors have already signed off on the expedited timeline, which will increase the probability of courtroom approval except scheduling points come up.

Diddy is presently serving his time on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He is scheduled to be launched from federal custody on May 8, 2028, in keeping with newly up to date Bureau of Prisons information.

He has already acquired credit score for a yr served and will scale back his remaining time by way of good conduct or participation in rehabilitation applications.

A significant element of the enchantment focuses on the usage of the Mann Act, a regulation initially handed in 1910 because the White-Slave Traffic Act. 

Shapiro described it as “an infamous statute with a sordid history,” arguing it was misapplied in Diddy’s case. The protection maintains that the prostitution expenses had been improperly added to the broader sex-trafficking indictment, which Diddy finally beat in courtroom.

The courtroom has not but introduced whether or not it should undertake the proposed expedited schedule.

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